Trump's N.Y. trial to begin as potential jurors face 42 questions
Newsy
Potential jurors will be questioned Monday as Trump's hush money case in a New York court gets underway.
After multiple delays, former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial will begin Monday with jury selection as he faces 34 felony counts in a New York court for falsifying business records.
The hush money case will be the first of four potential criminal trials for Trump. Trump's lawyers have attempted to get the charges against the former president thrown out.
Prosecutor Alvin Bragg said in a court filing that Trump tried to conceal an "illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election." Bragg has alleged that Trump falsified records in an effort to prevent damaging stories from emerging during the 2016 presidential campaign. Bragg says Trump falsified records to hide payments to attorney Michael Cohen for him to pay Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and former doorman Dino Sajudin.
Bragg says that business records relating to the payments were falsified in order to disguise the conduct.
Prosecutors say the Trump Organization paid Cohen in monthly installments and a year-end bonus check.
